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New York, New York, United States

• Spearheading change management initiatives by developing and implementing the organization's vision and integrating it into the core values, fostering a culture of creative thinking, and resilience. • Leading project management efforts by applying principles, methods, and tools to develop, schedule, coordinate, and manage projects and resources, ensuring efficient monitoring of costs, work progress, and performance. • Drive the development of high-performing teams by selecting candidates aligned with team values, fostering open discourse and healthy debate, and creating incentives for collaborative work while maintaining limits on external political activities.

New York City, New York

• Heading the IT Engineering team for the Americas, which specializes in various IT domains, including Data Center management, infrastructure, security, end-point support, deployments, and monitoring.• Recruiting and guiding IT engineers towards achieving excellence, by designing individualized career paths, attaining exceptional performance evaluations, and aligning personal goals with the enterprise's needs.• Overseeing intricate technical projects throughout the organization, with a focus on addressing business requirements, values, and fostering innovation. This involves tasks such as requirements analysis, design, UX, integration and system testing, deployment, technical support, documentation, and training.• Collaborating with stakeholders and external vendors to streamline operations, foster strong partnerships, and ensure seamless integration of services to support business objectives.

New York, United States

• Sole owner of Outbrain’s IT data centers with ongoing maintenance including backup & restore, patching, and health checks.• Successfully led the two datacenter’s hardware refresh in 2022 to increase capacity and reliability. This migration with intricate network design was achieved with zero downtime by using VMWare’s Vmotion to new VXRails compute & storage clusters.• Implemented a comprehensive disaster recovery plan with scripts, backup jobs, and detailed documentation to reduce the impact of future outages. Conducting bi-annual recovery drills to educate the IT team on executing critical procedures during emergencies.• Implemented a vulnerability management program to identify and patch security vulnerabilities transparently using JAMF and KACE.• Pitched and executed a “Collaboration 2.0” project to replace the enterprise AV and phone systems with a new and unified solution world-wide. The migration increased user experience and satisfaction rate by 43%, and reduced costs by more than 60%.• Built Outbrain New York headquarters: Planned, managed and executed the entire infrastructure for a state-of-the-art office space while setting the foundations for future growth. Design and execution included power, network, WiFi, AV, security, IT gear, cooling and sound dampening.

New York City, New York

•Developed plans and propose upgrades, maintenance, and improvements, resulting in enhanced system performance. • Worked closely with regulators for audit and compliance during IPO while maintaining confidentiality of information handled.• Identified the need for Apple Business Manager and rolled out deployment of new laptop automated provisioning saving time.• Deployed and managed computers using JAMF & KACE• Performed VMware ESXi maintenance, VMware right-sizing, and hardware upgrades.• Involved in office expansion and renovations of remote offices, including installation of Fortigate firewalls, network switches, and AV systems.• Trained co-workers and IT management on existing procedures during periods of staff transition. • Performed executive support functions, including managing AV needs of cross-site Board meetings and globally broadcasted “All-Hands” meetings and various company events. • Performed day-to-day maintenance of Linux infrastructure.• Performed weekly user onboarding sessions with new hires

Elmwood Park, Nj

• Managed Tandberg video conferencing software and hardware.• Performed audio and video editing of all internal presentations and events.• Supported in-house Support Staff, Admins, Engineers, Surveyors, Associates, Sr. Associates, Executives, and their external clients on Dell and HP Systems running primarily on Windows 7.• Served in the Technology Department overseeing the implementation of OS and Hardware upgrades for desktop systems and management of servers.• Project lead on Windows 7 upgrade from XP desktops and laptops company wide.